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Ol’R YOUNG FOLKS.
A JMIMIIAP.
A dnr little fellow named Noah
liaii made up hlii mind that he’d go a*
Satling alone
In a I mat of Ida own,
For he wn* a champion rower.
Thl* dear little fellow named Noah
Hadn't gone rery far before—oh! ah!
Ilia Imal waa upact,
And he got rery wet,
liid tliia little numbakull ol a Noah.
MRB. SKILLINGS’ SK< RET.
Robert was harnessing the old horse
iuto the farm wagon; a sorry nag it was,
but then it had four legs, and managed
to get over the ground somehow, bo it
was better than n* horse. As he was
fastening the last buckle, a cherry voice
called out:
‘‘Hallo, Rob! you’re just the fellow I
wanted to see!”
“Anything sjiecial?” asked RoK
“ Yes; wo re getting up a fishing-party,
and waft! vou to join us."
“\Yhoiils it lobe?”
“To-morrow, We’re, going to Ream
Pond. All the fellows are going; wfe’ve
chartered Smith’s big wagon, so we can
nil go together; it will he jolly fun; you
will go, won’t you?”
“I wish I could,” said Robert, “but I
don’t;boc how I can spare the time. I’ve
got to go to the mill to-day, and tomor
row mv potatoes must be lifted; I’ve put
and. oil till the lust minute, No; 1 don’
see how I can spare the time, anyhow,
Tim.”
“Hut it will bo only one day,” said
Tim; “you can easily make that up.”
“I could if there wasn’t something just
as pressing the next day, and every day,”
said Robert. “No; it's qo use, Tim, I
shall have to give it up, but I hope you’ll
have w first rate time. NoW give mo a
lift nf these bags, will you?” "
“With fill my heart; here goes," said
Tim. lunl the two youug men loaded the
wugup with tlie corn which was soou to
lie ground up into meal. Then Robert
mounted afb't it, and seated himself on
the front'd which answered for a seat.
“Perhaps you’ll change your mind
when you've had time to think it over,”
said Tim.
I “Not unless my potatoes get themselves
hood while I’m gone to mill," said Rob
ert, laughing.
“Then you won’t even say you’ll think
of it,” said Tim.
Robert shook his head. “My idea is
that when you ought nbt to do a thing,
the less you think ol' it the better.
Thank you all the same for wanting me;
there’s some comfort in that."
“Wall, good-by, then.”
“Good-by, Tim.”
“First rate fellow; it’s a shame ho
should have to work so hard," said Tim
to lumself, ns Robert drove away.
Robert was only eighteen, and it was
indeed a heavy burden his young shoul
ders had to carry. His father had died
t he year before, leaving a large family of
children—how many l will not under
lake to say; but it was a current saying
that Mrs. Shillings, the mother, hail to
call tin* roll every night to see if they
wero all present ami accounted for. Of
those Robert, was the eldest.
“1 don't know what’s to become of
us,” said Airs. Skillings, the night after
her husband’s funeral; “of course we
shall have to give up the farm.”
“Not if .1 can help it,” said Robert.
“I have thought it all over, and, with
your consent, 1 am going to try and ear
ly it on.”
“But yon can’t do it child; you don’t
k: mv what you are undertaking."
“1 think I ought to know, mother; I
li*ve Worked cu it ever since I was* a
boy.” said Robert, cheerfully.
"You're nothing but a boy now,” said
MYk Skillings, looking over her spect
acles at tin* audacious youth who pre
sumed to offer counsel to his mother;
Ins mother who but yesterday, as it
seemed, had trotted him on her knee
and fed him with pap. “And besides,”
sin* added, “you forget thr mni'fi/oge."
"No, 1 don’t forget it, but Mr. Carew
is a good man; he’ll give us all the time
\ve*wunt; In* was hero this morning and
said so," said Robert. *
•'Well, well, so you'v# got it all ar
ranged; who’u have thought it ?" said
Mrs. Skillings,and from that time she
begun to look up to Robert with that eou
fldemtb and pride wliieli, jierhaps, a
woman never so readily aoappds to any
as to lu*r first-born son. when he allows
himself at all worthy#)! it.
He had been “one of the children”
.Wf,Vh>, now he wi* henfi of the family,
and iisueeiouli to be treated with the
deference which belonged to his posi
tion.
The year which had passed had in no
wise diminished lieroonfidance in him,
but rather increased it, so that uow few
things were done in the family without
lirst consulting Robert.
After Tim had seen Rob drive oIT to
the luiU. a bright thought entered 1 113
head; one which he immediately pro
ceeded to cany into execution.
The result was that its Mrs. Skillings
was standing at the kitchen sink washing
the Enief-aUibef, she saw six persons
come into the yard with guns over their
shouhlers—that is, she at first thought
they were guns, but on nearer view, they
proved to he lux's.
This was scare ely less id arming, for
why should'six men invade the premises
armed with hoes unless they meant
vit deuce and plunder!
They came straight to the door which
she was nlxmt to shut in their flux's,
w hen she recognized in theMesder Hob's
frieud, Tim Nolan.
Then Tim explained to her alxuit the
fishing-party, and Iloh's refusal to join
it because the potatoes were not hoed.
“ So if you don’t object," said ho, “we
propose to get them all hoed before he
comes batik.”
“ Well, I never! that lieata all,” said
Mrs. Skillings, laughing. “Object? of
course I don’t object. I'm ouly too glad;
it isn’t many holidavs Rob gets, poor
fellow!”
“And Mrs. Skillings, we want you to
keep it a secret,; let him puzzle over it
awhile,” said Tim.
“ I won’t say a word, not I," said Mrs.
Skillings. " And I’m sure, you’re all
very good, and I thank you from my
heart.”
This was quite true, still, in her heart
she also thought that Robert deserved it
all, aud that it was uo wonder people
nut themselves out to do kind things lor
him.
Mrs. Skillings kept her promise faith
fully not to tell Robert what had occurred
in his absence, and for fear somebody
else should tell him, the first thing she
said to .Tndy and Sammy when they came
homo from school was:
“ Hist! mind now! Yon’re not to tell
Robert.”
“ Tell him what?” exclaimed.tlicy.
“What you bw in the field as you
came pant.”
“What field?” asked .Judy.
“I]he potato field, to lie sure,” said
Airs. Skillings, impatiently,
“We didn’t come past it,” said Judy.
“We came the other way.”
“What is there in the jwtato field?,”
asked Sammy.
“ Nothing,” said his mother.
“Then why musn’t we tell Robert?"
“For mercy's sake don’t ask mo sc
many questions,” said the bewildered
woman. “I meant nothing particular."
“I’ll find out," said Sammy, darting
through the door. Airs. Skillings fol
lowed, but all she saw of her hopeful
Ron was the soles of his boots, as, one
after the other, they disappeared over
the stone wall.
“There, I’ve let the eat out! I’m so
vexed with myself,” cried she.
“What eat? T don’t see any cat,” said
the literal Judy.
“Go aud look inutile woodshed,” sa ; d
lior mother, now ut her wits’ end.
Judy obeyed, but found no cat, and in
a few minutes Sammy came back to say
there was “nothing In the pertater field
but a lot of men lioeing,”
“Well, I told you there was nothing
particular.”
“Then why musn’t we tell Robert?”
“Because I don’t want him to know—
there!” said Mrs. Skillings.
“That’s funny,” said Sajnmy, med
itatively, and from that moment lie kept
his eye on the window that he might be
the first to see Robert coming.
When he saw him he ran out and fol
lowed him about the barn while he un
harnessed the horse and put away his
grist, hut he didn’t toll, not Sammy; all
lie said was:
“You can’t guess what happened this
afternoon.”
“Nothing bad, T hope.”
“If it wasn’t why did mother say we
mustn’t toll ?”
This, coupled with certain mysterious
hints about tlio “potato field,” led Rob
ert to take a look at that part of his
farm before going into the house. There,
ns we know, a pleasant surprise awaited
him; his friends had shouldered their
guns and gone, but the work was all
done.
“Sammy Skillings you ought to lie
sent to bed without your supper," said
Airs. Skillings, as her two sous came iu
to the kitchen hand in hand.
“What for?” asked Tommy.
“For tolling, when Tim Nolan wanted
it kept secret,” said Airs. Skillings.
“So Tim was at the bottom of it,”
said Robert, laughing. “I thought as
much.”
“There, I've lot the cat out again,
myself,” said Mrs, Skillings, whereupon
Judy wont down on her knees and began
searching behind the furniture for that
mysterious animal.
Hut it made no dill’orenee who let the
cat out, for Robert was sure to have
heard the whole story the lies day.
miserable! Do not insist upon this
sacrifice.”
Beef Tea.
Mr. Wilkinson of St. Mary’s Hospital,
London, advises the following improved
method of preparing beef tea;
The meat, is cut into smallpicees and
placed in the evening, in an earthenware
vessel with sufficient cold water to cover
the meat; in this it is allowed to remain
all night. In the morning the meat is
taken' out, placed in other water, and
boiled for several hours. The meat of
the previous day is then passed through
a miuving machine, and put into the
cold liquor hi which the meat was steeped
ths previous night, mid upon this the
boiling Honor from the fifty's beef tea
is poured, and the whole well stirred and
it thou forms the complete beef tea. The
characteristics of good beef tea are that,
all the nutritious elements of the beef
should lie Inode available; and by the
process curried out as above this is effect
ually done, the albumen, fibrine, and
geluntino being all retained and taken
by the patient. Moreover, by the abovo
method a much smaller quantity of meat
is required than under the ordinary
mode, and it would, consequently, not
become a jelly if a How isi to stand; but
by adding a larger quantity of beef this
result could of course be obtained.
CDiijS forms with us what is called beef
jelly.) It should, however, be remarked
that iu very hot wtnither the beef tea
cannot be made in this manner, as it
would become sour from the length erf
time required for its preparation.
Thk youug ladies of Geneva Lake are
to meet at the residences there and raise
a charity fund by the sale of kisses, and
Heg, of the Herald, wants to know if
complimentary tickets are to be issued to
editors. Heg" is the editor that decided
to go heaven. A* soon as he heard that
salvation was free he said he weutd take
it in.—Peck's Am.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
In Columbus county, N. C., it is pro
posed to cultivate jute for market.
On one ranch in Texus a thousand
lambs were killed by cold weather.
Malvern, Ark., has voted down the
granting of liquor licenses in that place.
The new code of Mississippi cost $12,-
600, 5,000 volumes at $2 50 per volume.
It is said that castor beans can ha ■
raised to perfection in Western Texas.
William H. Vanderbilt has given $lO,-
000 to the University of North Carolina.
The places of a thousand or more ne
groes' wno have left the prairies of Alla-
Umia tor Mississippi have been easily
filled.
In Louisiana there are said to be 139
species of fibrous planks which can be
made amenable to the requirements, of
commerce.
During six days of Cbriatums,.,sß,7Bo
■worth ol whisky wassold, the Rv.v. R- N
i’ratt says, in the town ofmjHjbeville,
8. C. *’
An-eftort is reported at Prattville, Ala.,
to prohibit the sale of liquor within the
corporate limits, or raise the license to
$2,500.
From Jacksonville, Flu., the. shipments
of lumber last year aggregated 41,719,255
feet, an increase of 7,710,817 over the
year previous.
The largest crop of sugar in
this season is thought to be that made on
Bellevue plantation in St. Mary parish,
about 2,000,000 pounds.
Public schools in Tennessee'in 1880
numbered 5,522, against 8,0-12 in 1875,
In 1880 the teachers employed numbered
5.954, against 4,210 in 1875.
In Alabama a law has been passed giv
ing blacksmiths and woodworkers a lien
on vehicles repaired by them until the
price is paid.
The black lands of Alabama are said
to bo degenerating rapidly. The ridge
lands of canbrake have washed aw'ay,
and the bottoms need draining badlv.
The city of Galveston has contracted
for the sinking of an artesian well to the
depth of 2,000 feet or till water is reached
satisfactory in quality and quantity.
Olives and oil have been raised, in
South Carolina. Fine samples have just
been furnished hv Mrs. Preston S.
Brooks, of Edgefield. The trees' were
planted in 1853.
Build cotton mills. Five million bales
of unmanufactured cotton is worth to
the South $225,000,C00. Spun into yarn
this cotton is worth to the South $450,-
000,000.
Lee county, to be named in honor of
Gen. R. E. Lee, is proposed in North
Carolina to be formed out of parts of
Johnston, Wake, Franklin and Nash
counties.
The liquor traffic is one of the ques
tions which the Legislature of North
Carolina will have to face. A prohibi
tory liquor law* association lias bjeen
started at Raleigh.
The South Carolina law prohibits ab
solutely the sale of intoxicating liquors,
including malt liquors and wines, outside
of all incorporated cities, tow’us and vil
lages.
The remains of the father of Hon.
Jefferson Davis are buried in Wilkes,
county, Ga. It is alleged that Mr. Davis
has written to a gentleman, of Wilkes
county, offering a liberal^eward for them.
One of the most serioris drawbacks to
the prosperity of South Florida is said
to lie the fact that so,large portion of
the supplies is imported from th<TNoi*th.
The remark might be extended to other
parts of the South.
Kennedy, the South TeXascattlelpviiig,
who recently sold out to an EngHsh (inn
puny, had -one of tile largest /ranchci in
the State, * having ISO.OhO arises of ljmd
under fence, upon wdiieh he Ted 50|000
head of cattle aud it!,000 heme! of homes.
Negotiations are in progress for the
purchase of land in Eastern North Caro
lina whereupon to settle a colony of
Swedes, who are expected to arrive at
New York early in the spring. A loca
tion near the Pamlico river in Beaufort
county.
Ths Agricultural Department of Sdutli
Carolina will probably send an agent to
Germany to induce immigration. There
is some talk of managing this agency in
connection with those of North Carolina
and Georgia, thereby securing greater
advantages with less outlay.
By the new homestead act of South
Carolina, a homestead in 1 nds, whether
held in fee or any lesser estate, not to
exceed in value SI,OOO, with the yearly
products thereof, is exempt to the head
of every family residing in the State
from attachment, levy or sale, on any
mesne or final process issuing from any
court upon any judgment obtained upon
any right of action arising subsequent to
the ratification of the State constitution.
Also personal property to the' extent of
SSOO is exempt to the head of any family
residing in the Btate.
*
Manual Labor ts. Machinery.
A fear seems to haVo taken possession
of many minds lest by the inventive
genius of man maohiney might be pro
duced capable of accomplishing so much
as to remove the necessity for manual
labor, and, as a consequence, lest they
themselves should be unable to gain a
livelihood. So widely have these views
been imbibed, even by men of apparent
intelligence of a comparatively high
order, that they have advocated in strong
terms, upon the rostrum aud elsewhere,
the desirability of ndt"' dhly" banishing
new machinery, but inventor* alio Thia
opposition has made the path of those
who possessed sufficient enterprise to lead
them to devise new methods, and new
apparatus to effect the same, not only
unpleasant, but generally unprofitable;
whereas if mankind had been mpro fully
endowed with wisdom and nrotnerly
love a vt'rr different state of affairs would
have existed.
The cry that “the rich are growing
richer apd the poor are growing poorer,” .
as the requlkof the jntroduetipn of new
machltorfy is not true. In fact, the Use
of machinery is constantly improving the
condition of all classes; and the advance
that has been made by the masses to
ward a higher crvilifcntion the last half
century is simply wonderful, and is due
to the development of the inventive
genius of man. That there is not an
equitable distribution of the products of
the farm, the mine, and the manufactory
cannot be denied Rut where does tho
fault lie? Not with the machinery either
of- old or new design. ■
Let tho reader look back with the aid
of proper books of reference to the con
dition of things fifty years ago. At that
time it was beginning to dawn upon the
minds of the most progressive that steam
railways were a possibility; but every
thing for the next ten years was in the
crudest possible condition, no more like
tho comfortable railways of to-day Rian
a two-wheel springless ox-cart is like a
modern pleasure carriage. Then travel
was slow and tedious for all classes, rich
or poor. Now the rich, and tlie poor as
well, may travel five hundred miles com
fortably in twenty-four hours. Then the
mails were weeks in going and ooming
where days will now suffice. Then tele
graphs were unknown, but now any one
priy send a message to a friend hundreds
ill miles away for a few cents, and get an
answer almost at once, whereas it for
merly required several days if not weeks
for a message to go aud Vcome. -These
and hundreds of other improvements
that have been inaugurated are open to
the use and benefit of ail, and have"
greatly lessened, the most arduous work
of the laboring man, while tlie necessity
for his services is in no wise less now than
formerly In fact it may be truly said
that the day laborer can now enjoy many
things that tho wealthiest men half a
century ago could not obtain.— New
York Mercantile Journal.
The Spider.
The worst thing about tliis poor insect
is, that it is so thoroughly ugly. In it
Nature has sacriticed everything in the
formation of the industrial maohiue
necessary for satisfying its wants. Of a
circular form, furnished with eight legs
and eight vigilant eyes, it astonishes
(and disgusts) us by the pre-eminence of
an enormous abdomen. Ignoble trait
in which the inattentive and sujierticial
observer will see nothing but a type of
gluttony. Alas! it is quite the con
trary. This abdomen is its workshop,
its magazine, the pocket in which the
rope-maker keeps his stockj but as lie
tills this pocket w*ith nothing but his
own substance, he can only increase it
at his own expense by means of a rigid
sobriety. True type of the artisan. “If
I fast to-day,” he says, “ I shall, per
haps, get something to eat* to-morrow;
but if my manufacture be stopped, every
thing is lost, and my stofnaeh Will .have
to fa§t forever. ” /\ I T /
In character the spider is watchful
arflfl cafimng; inr disposition timid; un
easy and nervous—bqiugendowed with, a
more sensitive nature' than is possessed,
by any other insect. These character
istics are the natural results of its miser
able oomy-tion, whiqk is a statp of con
stant, 'passive, weary waiting. To be
forever watqhintg the ceaseless* joyless,
careless - dances of the-fiy, which pays no
attention to the greedy desires of his
■enemyzor tjhe. gentle whi*er|%£# ‘"(3pßae
here. Iftfle oiie, come this wh“-=!bto
be in a_ state of eonstant torment, to bo
continually a suHl'seicm of
hopes and mortification. The fatal
question, “ Shall I get any dinner?” is
continually presenting itself to the
dweller in the welV followtefl by >the still
more sinister reflection, Ijliave no
dinner to-day, thcu no more thread, and
still less hope,of dining to-morrow. ”
The male spider often rtmkes a meal of
his progeny; while the female loveathem
so tenderly tliat if she cannot save them
in circumstances' at peril she prefers to
perish with them. The love which she
bears to her little ernes she does not ex
tend towards her mate. Sometimes,
after having in vain attempted to pre
vent him from devouring their offspring,
• the Men appears suddenly to present it
self to her mind that the cannibal is
himself good tot food, on which Bhe
instantly falls upon him and eats hint
“P- . . ...
Thb devastation caused by rabbits
amounts in Australia to a serious calam
ity. One large estate, which formerly
supported 80,000 sheep, has been aban
doned on account of these pests.
HUM i)ftS OF THE DAY.
Thu I .era Gazette calls the minis
ter's . the tat on -matches.” AYe can
mate di.it: tie oemakerid jtee is the
tax,on men's soles
A i xl* prl ri proaohed lis diso
bedienoe and creaking the 'eoßkmaud
ments, said, “Mamma, those command
ments break awful easy.” ' \ t 'Jf
Wnrtw a man offers fb reoiryour for
tune out of the grounds of a coffee cup,
set that man down for a cup aud sor
cerer. ~~SurUngton Mawkeye.
The average agepf a hog up only fif
teen years. This always oonmms us
when we see a map himself over
four seats in a railway oAr. I \VtvY.
Tin: first time, a white man sees an
Rhglish railway cbftcn, fib thinks he has
struck a traveling American photograph
car on rails. ■+—Burlington
.everybody wilf be able toa® the
Afautcli girls, but flaugot a
pretty good idea of their dance by put
tfiqg two UufpejA down the housemaid’s
back: —fieston Post.
A mah in (Jaton, Steuben (J**nty, N.
Y., hasi raised a cabbage around the head
of which thirteen smaller heads were
clustered. Exchange. Probably the
cabbage was on the table.
A few days after going to a wake,
Bridget asked her mistress for her
money. “Are vou going to leftte?”
"Yes,’' ma’am, Tin gofng" t3 TUftfTy the
corpse’ husband. lie tokLine I was the
life wake!" J
Says ms iaiidlOTd toxliomfs,
“Your rent I mutt raise,
I’m so plaguiiy pinched lor the pelf."
“ iifira tuy rent}’’ replies Hmnyiu,*; I
“ Your honor’s nValh good,
V For I never can saise it myself.” ■ ;K
It is now said that the inventor of the
Rrush electric light received his first
hint from brushing a black cat’s back the
wrong way. This should teaoli us not
to despise the small aud apparently use
less tilings in nature. iifJ| ~ ( w j
. “I say, Clem,” cried two,, disputing
’ darkieS, appealing for decision to 1 * t sable
umpire, “whielf is right—dizabtfy or
dezaetly ?” The’sable tnonareh reflected
for a moment, and then, with a look of
wisdom said, “I can’t tell perzaetly. ”
To|lekins is a very small man, in
deed; frut he said he never minded it at
alluutu liis three boys grew up to be tall,
strapping young fellows, and his wife
hegarfi to cut down their old clothes and
cut them over to life him. -And then he
said he clid get mad.
How can I best increase my slock?”
• . Said tai mer Johu to Thomas;
’ “By making six of one,” quoth Torn;
“No miracle I promise.
A simpler proems ne’er wgs known.
Whatiit7 Wtll now, i’porirt’
You put that yearling cow to sleep,
’Twill make a fieifer-doziu’.
Yonker's Gazette.
One night Uncle ’Harvey, fceejfettof a
poor house down in Maine,- was waked
by the groans of one of the old men.
“What is the matter?” he asked. “I'm
dying, Uncle Harvey,” said the old man.
“I’m dying}-m> and get me a doughnut;
I must have shrillin' to pass away the
time. ” \
Fitting emblems are not always ap
preciated. Tlie ittiglibors of a poor fel
low who died ereqted a tombstone to his
memory, and ligd placed above it the
conventional white dove. The widow
looked at it through her tears and said:
“It was very thoughtful to put it there.
Johu was very fond of guiuuqg,, and it is
an especially smtabl* embh’bi
. . Rimy Jlen.„
Bhar nfen of tifftiirulrkfi Thiers have
often surprisy*4 the, world by the extent
of their literary labors. Bossuet was a
prolific wriferj Wtb ®fi.i>llowing pas
sage from the newly published "Ecrits
Inedits” of St. Simon pxplftiAs how* he
reconciled his literary tastes With his
absorbing duties of Bishop, of Meaux:
“He know sb -much. and with so much
order and method, that he wrote- with
astpuislpEg t'acjlityj. Hs, like the poets,
had no fixed hours’ for woyk, Jthoaurli he
worked a great deal 'daily. ™#nipt he
had a lire, a light, a pyr of pantaloons
and a efressirfg "gown near his bed, and
nearly every night he rose aud jerked
alone several hours, people who were
ignorant, of this circumstance were often
Very much surprised that ho was not out
-of his chamber at 11 a. m., aud that soon
affer lie rapily dressed to say mass. He
nad workeduntil <5, 7 and 8 a. in., car
ried away by his abundance* and, subject.
The .quantity of wofk*"fe has left is
prodigious, and wPtli* m Atciy) con
tinual and piicli varied labors, he none
the less proved to be an excellent bishop,
visiting and preaching himself to his
flock, and he measured his teachings to
their mind. ”
Sheep-Raising in Montana.
Judge 3}aveuport, of Montana X* m
torv, says an exchange.
ewes whieh cdfct him Sibwrtg3,OdH- He
put these in charge of a youug man who
was to take them onto a range, take all
the eafe*of -tfiehi,* pay all tSiWexpenses of
the band and to receive as his share one
lialf of the wool produced and one-half
the increasex>f ,tli flock. \M the end of
four years a settlement ( pas to be made
and Judge Davenport Was to receive back
1,000 of the beM ewes which the band
contained, When the - settlement was
made Judge, Davenport had received for
his share rrt tftb proceeds of the wool
66*500, and.for, share .fhe increase
SB,OOO. The profits on the investment
of $3,000 for four years were $14,500, or
120 2-3 per cent per annum.
.v v ... (v-vk V MjTtT ■
Smart Reckoning. *
“ Pa, will von get' me a pair erf ska tea
if I prove that a dog has ten tag*?”
“Yes. my son.”
<< Well, one dog has one more tafl than
no dog. hasn’t he?”
“ Ytf Otf,
“Well, no dAghoS'-imne tads; and 11
one dog has one more tail than no do 4
then one dog must have ten tails. Hand
over skates, vfleate."
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